Theologian Quotes

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

They always win who side with God.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.